What does fetcher-create do?

If you are creating a site on your local machine, be sure to add an entry to your machine's hosts file to point your new site's domain (e.g. 'foo.local') to 127.0.0.1 (or the IP of your virtual machine).

Folder layout

Fetcher creates a "working directory" with a specific layout for its uses. That directory is laid
out as follows:

public_files - The Drupal public files directory which will be symlinked to sites/default/files by default. Generally group writable and group owned by the webserver.

private_files - (Optional) A private file directory to be used by drupal. Generally group writable and group owned by the webserver.

logs - A folder for logs with files created for mail.log, access.log and watchdog.log. Logs used in development, not recommended for production.

code - A folder containing the actual checkout from the VCS repository.

releases - (Optional).

1.0.1 - An example of a release folder for a tag called 1.0.1.

webroot - A symlink to the Drupal root (usually the root of /code in this directory).

The settings.php file will be dynamically generated appropriately to the version of Drupal. You can include a site-settings.php file in the
sites/default folder and it will be dynamically included from the settings.php file. This is the prefered method of including PHP files.